Birthing A Greater Reality

Like many ambitious men, I spent a good deal of my life trying to achieve my way to success, acquire my way to happiness. I achieved and I acquired but the success was ephemeral and the acquisitions ultimately could not satisfy my deepest hunger. The American dream morphed into an interminable season of discontent. I hit bottom. Paradoxically, this was great news to my higher self, the part of me that was waiting patiently in the wings for me to call off the fruitless search, turn the ship around and head home.

As I look back on this time in my life through the lens of conscious evolution I see that this was the evolutionary imperative, or Divine Impulse, or God’s Presence and Power exerting itself through my being. As Robert Brumet says in the text we’ve been reading, The deepest desire of everything in this universe, from quarks to quails to quasars, is to return home to the Source. This is our deepest yearning.

The arc of conscious evolution bends toward the formless and requires us to release identification with the forms that have defined us. Form, no matter how much importance we ascribe to it, is still just form. It’s merely an external accessory to who we are, and not of our essence. It has no life of its own. No meaning. No purpose. No value. A job describes what I do, not what I am. We also lose ourselves in the roles we assume in life, our socioeconomic conditions, how others see us, etc. Soon our entire self-concept is invested in a stock that

has no intrinsic value.

To continue the journey home, to evolve consciously, and birth a greater reality we must be willing to abandon form in favor of content. This can be difficult, painful, and counterintuitive, yet the exfoliation of the false self is the only way to uncover our true essence. Jesus understood the process, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. (John 12:24)

This is emergence that you can truly welcome. This is the change that transforms you at depth and brings healing and wholeness that surpasses any form the world can offer.

Join us this Sunday at Unity in the Olympics (* via Zoom live - use this link ) as we conclude our series with a message on consciously participating in our growth and unfoldment, the pathway to birthing a greater reality.

Peace and blessings,

Rev. Larry